DUNEDIN.
This day. A six-roomed bouse in Union St., occupied by Mr A. Maggett, and owned by Mr J. C. Baber, was burned down this morning. The furniture was insured in the Victoria office for £150, and the building in the Norwich Union for £250. Some clothes which had been placed before the kitchen fire to-dry ignited, and caused the fire.
At the inquest on the man Stanly, who fell through a skylight at the City Hotel, a verdict of •• Accidental death" was returned, with a recommendation that a clause be inserted in the "City building regulations* by'which skylights be guarded by iron bars at a sufficient distance to prevent anyone from falling through. The City Licensing Committee has re» fused all applications for midnight'licenses. The principal hotels g)t eleven o'clock, and others ten o'clock, licenses.
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Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5108, 1 June 1885, Page 2
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136DUNEDIN. Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5108, 1 June 1885, Page 2
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